For a moment, it looked as though fashion was preparing for one of its most complicated acts of institutional redemption. John Galliano was expected to become the subject of a major Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a career retrospective that would have placed one of fashion’s most influential and controversial designers firmly inside the museum’s canon. Instead, Galliano has decided that … Continue reading The Revenge of Galliano — Or, The Met Gala That Almost Was